Education campaign planned on prescription drug abuse

4:56 PM,
Apr. 26, 2013

Written by

Ivy Farguheson
ifarguheson@muncie.gannett.com

The painful cries of a newborn infant withdrawing from prescription medication used to be a rare sound at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.

Now, neonatalogists, obstetricians, nurses and volunteers in the neonatal intensive care unit hear these cries and see the physical agony of babies born withdrawing from painkillers and other prescription medications each day. And they think educating potential mothers on the danger of these medications before they get pregnant is the best solution to decreasing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.